A Cog in the Wheel

The Obama Regime (to quote some conservative talk show hosts) offers so much material to comment on it is hard to decide what to address. But for this month's post I would like to comment on an aspect of Obama Care.

As one of the stipulations of the new bill, individuals or companies that do not or can not provide insurance for themselves or their employees will be fined $2,000 a year per individual uninsured. On average it cost a company 10 to 12 thousand dollars per employee per year to provide insurance. Now a business working under the principles of capitalism would see a 8 to 10 thousand dollar savings by not offering insurance and paying the $2,000 fine per employee. Now some might see this as a failure of Obama Care. Under this scenario there will be less people with health insurance and therefore go against the supposed goals of the Obama care in providing more affordable insurance for more Americans.

I argue that this is exactly the goal of Obama Care. More people without insurance makes more people dependent on the government for medical care. This in turn make more justification for a single payer system and the complete take over of Health Care by the government. This is just a cog in the wheel of total government control of health care and the real goal of the Obama Health Care Program.